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Old 02-21-2010, 01:37 PM   #247
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
The link I provided is the illustrated version here on MR

I personally don't care to read annotated versions, it's sort of like revisionist history.
I learned a lot from this version, which is by Martin Gardner of mathematical puzzles fame. Alice benefits from commentary, I think, both because it is full of references to things familiar to children a century ago - many no longer familiar today - and also full of references to logic and puzzles, some of which are much easier to miss than the acrostic at the end.
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